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brm_673494 - HOSTILIAN Sesterce
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Price : 70.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 70.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 251
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 16,98 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée frappée sur un flan fissuré, avec un joli buste et un revers intéressant. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : C VALENS HOSTIL MES QVINTVS N C.
Obverse description : Buste drapé, tête nue, d'Hostilien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A°21).
Obverse translation : "Caius Valens Hostilianus Messius Quintus Nobilissimus Cæsar", (Caius Valens Hostilien Messius Quintus très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS// SC.
Reverse description : Hostilien debout à gauche en habit militaire tenant une enseigne de la main droite et une haste verticale de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Principi Iuventutis", (Au Prince de la jeunesse).
Historical background
HOSTILIAN
(+251)
Son of Trajan Decius - Caesar
Hostilian, second son of Trajan Decius and Etruscille became Caesar at the end of the year 250, perhaps when his brother Herennius Etruscus received the title of august. When Trajan and his eldest son leave Rome to fight the Goths and find death, Hostilian stays in Rome with his mother..
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